THE EXPERIENCE OF USING CYBER GAMES IN THE PROCESS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF STUDENTS OF THE DIRECTION “INFORMATION SECURITY”

Abstract

The task of the article is to study the main features of cyber games method and its application process in order to teach students technologies for protecting information systems from cyber-attacks. Specifically, the use of this method is considered as a way to optimize well-known information system protection technologies studding process by persons mastering “Information Security”. Requirements of modern society for the appropriate profile professionals training are first given. They describe the corresponding knowledge, skills and abilities system, the process of which formation can be optimized through the widespread introduction of the cyber games method. Stages of applying this method in training future information security specialists are studied. The role and place of competencies developed through its use in the educational process, in the professional portrait of a graduate who has successfully mastered the relevant direction, are demonstrated.